Culinary, medicinal and household recipes [manuscript], [ca. 1800].
1800
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Details
Title
Culinary, medicinal and household recipes [manuscript], [ca. 1800].
Created/published
[England], [ca. 1800]
Description
[44] p. ; 19 x 17 cm
Note
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 272511
Folger-specific note
Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9535, 2021-10-06, Cat. "First words: catalogue of manuscripts & rare books to be exhibited by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd on stand A7 at the firsts fair Saatchi Gallery London 21 - 24 October 2021", item #25. From dealer's description: "[HOUSEHOLD RECIPES] Manuscript book of culinary, medicinal and domestic receipts. [England. Circa 1800. Dated in text]. Contemporary wrappers with engraved illustration to front cover, rubbed and worn, covers working loose, text browned. Quarto (191 mm x 165 mm). Approximately 44 text pages, plus 4 blanks. The engraving to the cover was “Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 St . Paul's Churchyard, London.” It is recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and personal satires, which gives the following details: “5265 MY-SELF [i Feb. 1774] Printed for Robert Sayer, N° 53 Fleet Street. Engraving. A reissue with a different publication line of a plate published by Darly and dated as above which was No. 10, vol. 3 of the series issued 1772-4. A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees. Beneath the title four lines of verse are engraved, beginning, As I walked by myself, I talk'd to myself; and thus myself said to me”. Of all the 18th-century stationer’s books, perhaps the most fragile and prone to disintegration were paper-bound volumes. And of all the volumes produced, cookery books were, through frequent use, the most likely to disintegrate. This volume provides us with an unusual example of both these features in one volume, together with the additional ingredient of an engraved cover illustration. The engraving was “Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 St. Paul's Churchyard, London”, which suggests that Bowles produced cheap notebooks as a side-line and added various engravings as quick, readymade decoration, without even bothering to burnish away the plate number from the upper right corner. Our engraving is annotated in manuscript within the image “You are a fine old Fellow.” This volume has been used to combine 78 recipes and household remedies all together, and in no discernible order at one end, with eight recipes (mostly for wine) at the opposite end. It begins in a clear and legible hand until about halfway through where it transitions quite quickly to a second, neater, and more practiced hand. This latter takes us to the end of the manuscript but is occasionally punctuated by the earlier hand. Although the hand changes, the recipes are similar to the earlier section. Both writers appear to have devoted sessions to copying down batches of recipes. [...]"
Folger accession
272511